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Fluorite Malachite & Baryte

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Fluorite Malachite & Baryte

ex collection H. Schmitt, Dillingen
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Description
Locality: 
Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 7 × 5.7 cm
Description

Beautiful specimen with golden-yellow fluorite and creamy, platy baryte crystals surrouinded by traces of green - most probably malachite, but also something rarer possible (cornwallite? ...). Some gray-black metallic mineral in the matrix - covellite?

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

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